Internet Nostalgia

[Girl_On_Fire]

Back when we thought an hour to download an album was FAST!

[dixie]

Back in the day, THIS was my internet....




I built webpages on the original Tripod site (and geo-somethingorother) with this darn thing. I was a teenager and ran multiple snail mail pen pal websites. I also was a WebTV forum-aholic.

At the time, my parents "didn't believe in" computers or other "nonsense fad items" so this way my first ever online experience. I loved it lol

I remember later on having a very clunky pc with the hella annoying dial-up AOL going on.

Both of which would kick me off any time someone called.

[Katniss]

Ha ha ha! The first thing I thought of was "All Your Base." I thought it was sooo cool when I first saw it.

Katniss~~(hated the dancing baby though, and never watched Ally McBeal either)

[Dutch Leonard]

I have an All Your Base T-Shirt!

I got on the internet in 1999 and the first thing I did was download Seti@Home. I wanted to help find ET. This lead to participating in many other distributed computing projects and also to building computers that were dedicated to these tasks.

My first computer was a 500 MHz Pentium III Gateway. It was so exciting when dual cores came out and then quad cores and then hyper-threaded quad cores. I learned about overclocking and started to learn to code. Francois Piednoel talked to me at Seti@Home. The electric bill started getting too high and the drama of the Seti@Home message boards became burdensome. I gave up distributed computing.

I am also nostalgic about newsgroups. I used to participate in several that were dedicated to television shows. I remember the Andromeda group in particular.

[Chancie]

i got online in about 1995.

I bought a new computer when I started graduate school and

It came with a disk to install Prodigy.

My first email address was a randomly generated list of characters @prodigy.com.

I played a lot of Tetris when I should have been doing research, and

I would dream about those shapes falling.

At some point I discovered a free download for Quake, and

I would play it a lot and I would get kind of flinch-y, and

I would delete it from from my computer.

I would download it again, and delete it again.

Eventually I learned how to play in 'god mode' and

I got way too familiar with the geography of the game.

I didn't know that many people with email addresses in 1995, but

I had a lot of fun corresponding.

I made terrible mistakes all the time, like

I sent a romantic email meant for my ex to her whole family.

Once I cc'ed my ex's mother in an email where I was talking about her.

She was always very nice to me and

All I was repeating was her strong opinion about how to use ellipses correctly.

[JustBeingMe]

I miss the sound of AOL dial up............LMFAO that was my first internet experience.......and yeah everytime someone called me, it would kick me off..........that got annoying.

[jac]

I kinda miss the old dial-up sounds and AOL's "you got mail"

I remember being told of Google and me asking, "what's a google?"

I never got knocked off line because my mommy made me get a second phone line in the house... lol.

[Princess]

Originally Posted by dixie

Back in the day, THIS was my internet....




I built webpages on the original Tripod site (and geo-somethingorother) with this darn thing. I was a teenager and ran multiple snail mail pen pal websites. I also was a WebTV forum-aholic.

At the time, my parents "didn't believe in" computers or other "nonsense fad items" so this way my first ever online experience. I loved it lol

I remember later on having a very clunky pc with the hella annoying dial-up AOL going on.

Both of which would kick me off any time someone called.

This was my first shot at actually having internet in the home..my parents werent big fans of the computer so until then I really had only used my besties computer...for what its worth it was pretty awesome at the time!